A Gift To Last
1h
Running Time
Plot.
A Christmas special about an elderly man looking back at life during the turn of the century in Ontario. His family help him to overcome his need for being solitary
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Cast & Crew.

Gordon Pinsent
Sgt. Edgar Sturgess

Mark Polley
Clement Sturgess

Alan Scarfe
Harrison Sturgess

Ian De Voy
Captain Fleming

Melvyn Douglas
Grandfather

Andriy ILkiv
Actor

Chris Langevin
Evan

Kate Parr
Claire Sturgess

Sammy Snyders
Actor

Alan Gibson
Director

Herb Roland
Producer

Tim Williams
Editor

William Beeton
ProductionDesigner
Details.
Wiki.
A Gift to Last is a CBC Television Christmas special broadcast in 1976, a subsequent family drama series that ran from 1978 to 1979, and a stage play based on the pilot episode.
In both the special and series, Gordon Pinsent portrayed Sgt Edgar Sturgess. The series, A Gift To Last, originated in a special of the same name, produced for Christmas 1976. In the special, written by Gordon Pinsent, Melvyn Douglas played Clement Sturgess, an elderly man who looked back on his childhood Christmases at the turn of the century, and especially to his family hero, his uncle, the colourful and irresponsible Sergeant Edgar Sturgess of the Royal Canadian Regiment, played by Pinsent himself.